Real Comedy Buffs Can Match These Quotes To Their Movies
- by Ben Sherlock
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Comedy has to be the most quotable genre in film. Sure, there are plenty of iconic quotes from non-comedy movies, like “You talkin’ to me?” from Martin Scorsese’s brilliant Taxi Driver or “Get away from her, you bitch!” immortalized by Sigourney Weaver, of course, in James Cameron’s Aliens. But generally speaking, the most beloved and best remembered quotes come from comedy movies, because comedy movie dialogue is constructed of jokes. Simple as that. The movies are filled with jokes and the best ones become quotable and iconic and those are the ones that you will have to identify in this quiz.
Some comedy movie quotes aren’t funny unless you’ve seen the movie. For example, “Don’t call my Shirley” is hysterical to people who have seen the movie, but not if you haven’t gotten the “Surely you can’t be serious” setup that came before it. Other comedy quotes, like “smelly pirate hooker,” are funny no matter what – no context required. And then there’s some that are just plain classic, however you spin it. So, is your comedy movie knowledge up to snuff? Take this quiz to see if you can match all of these classic comedy quotes to the movies they’re from!
“I am McLovin.”
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg began working on the screenplay for this raunchy coming of age high school comedy when they were teenagers themselves at the age of just 13, but the movie wouldn’t get made until they were well into their thirties and Rogen was one of the biggest comedy movie stars on the planet. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera star in the movie, and this famous quote comes when one of the characters has gotten a hold of a fake ID to buy the guys booze with a stupid name on it. What movie is this quote taken from?
“I’m kind of a big deal.”
Adam McKay and Will Ferrell have been responsible for some of the most delightfully silly, subtly satirical, and outright absurdist comedy movies to be released in the 21st century. They’ve told stories of TV newsrooms, NASCAR racetracks, New York detectives, immature manchildren, and many more. Every time they collaborate on a movie, a new classic comedy character is born and the world is blessed with an endlessly rewatchable film. In which of these McKay/Ferrell collaborations does this iconic quote appear?
“The price is wrong, ?@!#$!”
This movie is the one that made Adam Sandler a star. He started his career by performing standup and then going on to appear in Saturday Night Live, but he didn’t become a huge star until this movie came out. It’s about a hockey player who discovers a natural talent for golf and then takes part in a tournament to buy back his grandma’s house. At one point, Sandler gets into a fight with Bob Barker and tells him, “The price is wrong, ?@!#$!” What movie is it?
“What did you have for dinner? Was it cocaine?”
This movie is a really fun romp about a pair of guys played by Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott who are ordered by the court to take part in a big brother program. They each mentor a kid and learn something from the whole experience. Jane Lynch plays the head honcho at the program who used to be addicted to cocaine and she talks about it a lot. She says, “You know what I used to have for breakfast? Cocaine. Know what I had for lunch? Cocaine.” Rudd and Scott reply, “What did you have for dinner? Was it cocaine?” What’s the movie?
“We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!”
This movie stars Mike Myers and Dana Carvey and it was based on a series of sketches that they did for Saturday Night Live. The movie repopularized the hit Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and it’s famous for being endlessly quotable. Perhaps the most popular of all the quotes is “We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!” which the characters yell out when they get backstage and meet rock ‘n’ roll royalty. It’s applicable in real life if you’re even in this situation. Name the movie.
“If you’re from Africa, why are you white?”
“Oh my God, Karen, you can’t just ask someone why they’re white!” This movie is the defining teen coming of age comedy, from a screenplay written by the great Tina Fey. It stars Lindsay Lohan as a girl whose family moves from Africa back to America, where she has to assimilate into a new high school. Amanda Seyfried plays the role of Karen, a simple-minded teenage girl who can tell the weather from her boobs (or so she claims), who says this quote. What’s the movie?
“We need a little less Forever 21 and a little more Suddenly 42.”
Ever since meeting during their respective tenures on Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have been sporadically getting back together to collaborate on projects. Sure, Fey busied herself up with creating, writing, and starring in 30 Rock and Poehler was in the great Parks and Recreation on NBC for seven years. But they did the Golden Globes, the pregnancy comedy Baby Mama, and this wonderful little piece that managed to take on Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the box office. So, what movie is it?
“Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?”
1994 was Jim Carrey’s year. He was in three of the biggest movies of the whole year, and all of a sudden he went from being the white guy from In Living Color known for his spot on parodies of Snow and Vanilla Ice to being the biggest movie star on the face of the Earth. That’s not an exaggeration in the slightest. The biggest movie star on the planet. This road trip comedy directed by the Farrelly brothers is a stone cold classic. What movie is it?
“Shake and bake!”
This movie about the high flying and dangerous world of NASCAR racing, complete with all of its vapid product placement, was the first movie in which Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly were teamed up (and this is their catchphrase), before they immortalized their perfect comedic chemistry in Step Brothers. The movie was directed by Adam McKay, who also wrote the screenplay with Ferrell, and it’s about a brash NASCAR driver who’s threatened by a French F1 star. What movie is it?
“I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?”
This movie was a huge box office smash, as well as a critical darling, back in the late 1990s. It was one of the most popular and beloved comedies of the decade, and it spawned two sequels that got gradually worse. In the first one, Robert De Niro, the intense star of The Godfather Part II and Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, looks Ben Stiller right in the eye and asks him if he would be able to milk his nipples. It’s hysterical. What movie is it?
“I’m glad he’s single, because I’m gonna climb that like a tree.”
Melissa McCarthy used to just be the vaguely recognizable actress from Gilmore Girls and Samantha Who? and Mike and Molly. Remember that? It’s hard to remember. Right now, she’s one of the biggest stars in the world. We know her as being quite possibly the funniest woman on the face of the Earth. And that all started with this Judd Apatow produced comedy movie, where she stole every single scene she’s in as her character Megan. What movie is it?
“What is this? A center for ants?!”
Ben Stiller’s lovably idiotic male model character wants to open a center for kids to learn how to read, so he hires a bunch of architects and engineers to figure it out and they present him with a model of what the center will look like, which he thinks is the real thing. “How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can’t even fit inside the building?...I don’t want to hear your excuses. The center has to be at least three times bigger than this.” What movie is it?
“Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.”
This was one of those movies that came out of left field and blew audiences away. It was funny. It was original. It was full of really weird cameos and great dialogue. It had a fat, balding Tom Cruise dancing as if he was sucking the soul out of innocents. It also had Robert Downey Jr. in one of the best conceived and well-written roles in history. The line above is uttered by his character as a point of introspection. So, what movie was it?
“What’s Curious George like in real life?”
This movie was a huge game changer back in 2005. It made the R rated comedy the go-to style for funny filmmakers and proved that raunchy comedies would be the biggest hits from now on. Judd Apatow directed the movie as his feature debut and it made comedies about a group of foul mouthed males insulting each other the stylistic norm. The Andy character (Steve Carell) asks his friend Cal (Seth Rogen) about his shirt, “Cal, what do you think? Is this too yellow?” Cal says, “No,” but then asks, “What’s Curious George like in real life?” What movie is it?
“These go to eleven.”
This movie is one of the earliest examples of the mockumentary. A bunch of rock documentaries like Gimme Shelter were coming out and Rob Reiner and Christopher Guest and Michael McKean and Harry Shearer all got together with the brilliant idea to do a parody version. In one iconic scene, one of the band members is explaining that his amps go up to eleven to make the music even louder and he’s asked, “Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?” Confused, he just says, “These go to eleven.”
“You’ve got red on you.”
This British zombie comedy kicked off what is termed the Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy for the fact that each of the three movies featured a Cornetto ice cream with a different flavor to reflect the theme of the movie. They are also all directed by Edgar Wright, written by Wright and Simon Pegg, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. The three movies count among the best and most purely entertaining comedies ever made. This is the first one. What movie is it?
“You sit on a throne of lies!”
This beloved Christmas classic sees Will Ferrell’s character Buddy realizing that he doesn’t fit in with the elves at the North Pole, since he’s much bigger than them, and then finding out he’s a human who crawled into Santa’s sack when he was a baby at an orphanage. He travels to New York to meet his biological father, played by The Godfather’s James Caan, and along the way, he meets a department store Santa who sits “on a throne of lies,” because he’s not the real Santa. What’s the movie?
“You’re my boy, Blue!”
Will Ferrell yells this out at the funeral of his elderly friend in an early Todd Phillips movie. This was a few years before Phillips would solidify his status as Hollywood royalty with The Hangover, which was the highest grossing R rated comedy ever made at the time. However, this movie was hugely beloved by critics and audiences alike, and it remains a timeless classic to this day. It’s about middle aged guys hanging out with a frat – what’s not to love? Name the movie.
“I used to use this little gun when I was a prostitute.”
Danny McBride is a hugely underrated comedy actor. Every single thing he’s in, he’s totally hilarious. His delivery of every line is spot on. He’ll never fail to make his audience laugh out loud. In this stoner comedy, he stars alongside Seth Rogen and James Franco, and in one scene, as McBride and Rogen are getting locked and loaded to go and save Franco’s life, McBride fondly reflects on the “little gun” that he used to use in his career as a prostitute. What movie is it?
“It’s called a satchel. Indiana Jones has one.”
The character of Alan Garner says this when he’s questioned about his “purse.” This movie was a phenomenal hit back in 2009. It defied all expectations when it grossed a whopping $450 million at the worldwide box office. That’s like James Bond numbers or Star Trek numbers. It’s unheard of for a raunchy, R-rated comedy movie starring a cast of relative unknowns (well, they’re not unknowns anymore, of course) to gross that much money. So, what is this movie called?
“Did we just become best friends?”
Would Adam McKay and Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly just go ahead and make a sequel to this movie already? The entire world is DYING to see it! They don’t think the movie’s popular enough to warrant a follow-up, but it is! Since its release, this delightfully absurdist little comedy movie has picked up new diehard fans in just about every millennial on the planet. So, please, for the love of God, make the sequel! What movie is it?
“They’re not gonna catch us. We’re on a mission from God.”
This movie, a huge hit back in the day, saw Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi bring their most beloved SNL characters to the big screen. The pair don’t believe that anything will happen to them – no matter what they do, there won’t be any consequences – because what they’re doing is to save an orphanage, so God is on their side. So, they keep saying, “They’re not gonna catch us. We’re on a mission from God.” But what movie is it?
“You’re a crazy !@%#, hormones!”
This movie came out in 2007, when it seemed that comedy drama movies about an unplanned pregnancy were the biggest craze. This one took a hard R rated approach to the situation, as a typically slacker-like Seth Rogen accidentally impregnates Katherine Heigl and they try to make it work. Halfway through the movie, as the hormones are starting to set in, Rogen finds a way around the fact that he’s not allowed to yell at Alison by yelling at her hormones instead. What movie is it?
“This Urkin, the town rapist. Naughty, naughty!”
The production of this mockumentary flagged up a lot of concerns, since they didn’t tell everyone it was fake and as far as anyone being featured in the movie knew, it was a real documentary and Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakhstani character was a real foreigner. An FBI probe followed the filmmakers around, suspecting them of terrorism. In the end, it was worth it, since the movie turned out as a stone cold masterpiece. It’s beautifully made. What movie is it?
“Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?”
This movie is often cited as being the greatest comedy movie ever made. It made Mel Brooks so jealous and insecure about his throne as the movie parody king that it effectively ended his career. It was so funny that it ruined the comedy genre – Judd Apatow says that the reason studios aren’t making as many comedies these days is that no one can write one that’s as good as this one. There’s a gag every few seconds and they all land (no pun intended). What movie is it?
“Don’t be jealous that I’ve been chatting online with babes all day.”
This movie gave a lot of indie filmmakers hope back in 2004, as it was made independently on a shoestring budget of just $400,000, going out in the hopes that it might be able to find an audience in someone somewhere. It was a long shot, sure. But then, when the movie came out, it became a huge worldwide hit. It was a pop culture sensation! People fell in love with the quirky central character and the quirky supporting characters around him. What movie is it?
“Somewhere out there are four terrible fathers I wish I could thank for this great night.”
Seth MacFarlane became a beloved comedic figure with shows like Family Guy and American Dad!, and his feature film debut was highly anticipated – and it didn’t let down. One night, as MacFarlane’s character is enjoying a night in the house with four hookers, watching the Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill together, he tells them, “I love you girls. You know, somewhere out there are four terrible fathers I wish I could thank for this great night.” What movie is it?
“Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.”
This movie was written and directed by the Coen brothers when they were inspired by the film noir genre and the stories of Raymond Chandler. But they also drew in elements of stoner comedy and created the quintessential slacker character in The Dude. The stark contrast of The Dude is his best friend Walter Sobchak, a Vietnam veteran with a serious temper. When a man named Smokey steps over the line in a game of bowling, Walter takes out a gun and says, “Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.” What movie is it?
“That’s such a Boromir thing to say!”
This movie is an infamous one, because it almost caused the Third World War. It concerns the potential assassination of Kim Jong-un at the hands of Seth Rogen and James Franco. But as a movie, it’s pretty funny, when you reflect on it and forget how dangerous its mere existence was. Throughout the move, Franco tells Rogen he’s his Samwise, but when they have a falling out, he changes it to Boromir, who Rogen has never heard of. Franco says, “That’s such a Boromir thing to say!” What movie is it?
“He’s not the Messiah! He’s a very naughty boy!”
This movie was made by the revolutionary comedy troupe Monty Python as a scathing indictment of the religion of Christianity – and of organized religion as a whole, to be honest. It’s consistently rated among the greatest comedy movies of all time, topping list after list as compiled by critics. This line is spoken by the mother of the guy who is mistaken for the Messiah, Jesus Christ, at the center of the movie’s premise. What movie is the quote taken from?
“Your farts aren’t manly. They sound like a baby blowing out birthday candles.”
When director Adam McKay had a dinner with both Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, he realized the perfect chemistry between the two actors. He pitched to a movie honcho that the two should be featured as the stars of a movie together, giving the idea of a cop movie as an example. That person decided that a cop movie was the perfect idea, and the two were paired up for a spoof of buddy cop action movies. What’s the name of the movie?
“Hermione just stole all of our s**t.”
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg wrote and directed this movie that had been long gestating in the pile of scripts they had that they were working on. It sees a bunch of their famous friends, playing themselves, as they face the end of the world. One such person is Emma Watson, who appears at the guys’ hideout and steals all their food and drinks before making off with it. Then Danny McBride frankly says, “Hermione just stole all of our s**t.” What movie is it?
“We came, we saw, we kicked its ass.”
This line is spoken by the great Bill Murray in one of his greatest movies. In one scene, the receptionist Janine asks Winston Zeddemore during his interview, “Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster, and the theory of Atlantis?” to which Winston replies, “Ah, if there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.” This is one of the greatest comedy movies of all time. What is it?
“Have you seen my baseball?”
A common criticism of the Farrelly brothers’ movies is that they make fun of disabled people, and that is never more clear than in this movie. The lead character, played by Cameron Diaz, has a mentally impaired brother named Warren who walks around asking people, “Have you seen my baseball?” The character of Warren is played for laughs in the film, which has drawn a lot of criticism over the years. But still, it’s funny, so whatever. What movie is it?
“I just sharted.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman is dearly missed. Ever since he died, the gaping hole left in the world of cinema has been felt around the world. Whether he was playing a towering historical figure like Truman Capote or merely a villain in a Mission: Impossible movie, Hoffman always soaked up the screen and was endlessly watchable. In this movie, at a party (formal event), he tells Ben Stiller, “I just sharted,” and explains, “I tried to fart and a little s**t came out. I just sharted.” What movie is it?